Date of Award
Fall 12-21-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Nebahat Avcioğlu
Second Advisor
Amanda Wunder
Third Advisor
Ellen Prokop
Abstract
This inquiry examines portraits of “monsters”—an early modern term describing those whose bodies challenged socially-constructed categories by deviating from the social norm through differences of race, gender and physical or mental capacity, painted for Hapsburg royals across Europe, who collected specimens, including people, representing the scope of their territories.
Recommended Citation
Puleo, Risa A., "How to Look at Monsters: Staging Female Bodies from the Periphery of the Seventeenth-Century Spanish World in Baroque Portraiture and Hapsburg Collections" (2015). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/16
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